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Surfacing by Margaret Atwood

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Author Biography

Name: Margaret Eleanor Atwood
Birth Date: 1939
Place of Birth: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Nationality: Canadian
Gender: Female
Occupations: author, novelist, poet, cultural activist

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Biography of Margaret (Eleanor) Atwood
9683 words, approx. 32.3 pages
One of Canada's most public literary personalities, Margaret Atwood has made her reputation as much as by being versatile as by being controversial. As a poet she has to date produced ten volumes of verse, and since her early university days, she has pub...
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Biography of Margaret Atwood
6447 words, approx. 21.5 pages
The author of over sixty books, Margaret Atwood holds a unique position in contemporary Canadian literature. "Atwood is arguably the most recognizable writer in the country," noted John Bemrose in Maclean's. Likewise, Ann Marie Lipinski, writing in the C...
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Biography of Margaret (Eleanor) Atwood
5060 words, approx. 16.9 pages
Margaret Atwood is arguably the most prominent contemporary Canadian writer. Best known for her novels, Atwood is also admired for her accomplishments as a poet, critic, essayist, and short-story writer, and she has contributed as well to children's fict...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Surfacing Information
2,174 words, approx. 7 pages
Surfacing is the second published novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. It was first published by McClelland and Stewart in 1972. It has been called a companion novel to Atwood's collection of poems, Power Politics[1], which was written the previous...


News and Journals
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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Novel skims the surface -- poorly
12/17/2000: 690 words, approx. 2 pages
Novel skims the surface -- poorly By TIM CUPRISIN of the Journal Sentinel staff Sunday, December 17, 2000 -- A Desert in Bohemia. By Jill Paton Walsh. St. Martin's Press. 288 pages. $23.95. This moody little novel about the...
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Tribology & Lubrication Technology
Novel surface treatment reduces friction and wear
10/01/2006: 1,071 words, approx. 4 pages
Solid lubricants have proven to be very useful in reducing the friction and wear encountered by machinery under severe applications. This type of lubricant is required because conventional fluid-based lubricants cannot handle the extreme pressure and temperatures encountered. Most solid lubricants are coated...
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Spectroscopy
Surface-Enhanced Nanosensors
1/1/2007: 6,097 words, approx. 20 pages
Widespread interest in surface-enhanced spectroscopy has been rekindled by the development of new fabrication methods for plasmonic materials (1,2), theoretical modeling (3,4), spectroscopic instrumentation (5–9), and novel detection schemes (10). When the incident photon frequency is resonant with the collective oscillation of the conduction electrons,...
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AP News
Microsoft unveils new Surface computer
5/30/2007: 650 words, approx. 2 pages
Microsoft Corp. has taken the wraps off "Surface," a coffee-table shaped computer that responds to touch and to special bar codes attached to everyday objects.The machines, which Microsoft planned to debut Wednesday at a technology conference in Carlsbad, Calif., are set to arrive in November...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Barbara Hill Rigney
7,165 words, approx. 24 pages
In the following excerpt, Rigney discusses the theme of discovering the self through descent and return in Atwood's Surfacing.
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Critical Essay by Valerie Trueblood
1,161 words, approx. 4 pages
It is the life-impulse [Atwood] uncovers and venerates [in Surfacing] alone on the island peeling off her civilized skins. This is the impulse [she] uncovers in her poetry, honoring the claim-to-life of whatever lives. The narrator of Surfacing sees a heron killed for sport hanging in a tree and is as powerfully converted as Saint Eustace coming upon the stag with the cross between its antlers…. Her magnified understanding is not occupied with what the heron might stand for, or mean to humans, but wi...


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Surfacing by Margaret Atwood

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